Dana Richardson (b. 1980 Sewanee, TN) .
Richardson has a B.F.A. in painting from the Savannah College of Art and has studied the landscape at the New York Studio School, The Art Students League, and The Pennsylvania Academy. She was selected for a grant to the Vermont Studio Center. She has exhibited locally and has large scale murals at the Jepson Center for the Arts and in Atlanta.
My work plays with color theory and compositions similar to cinematic establishing shots. I am interested in the static nature of painting and the aesthetic vocabulary of film. A conversation is unfolding between movement and progression versus stillness and the timeless (without time) in my present work. The interplay between light, shadow, and color are reminiscent of painting traditions like chiaroscuro and the scroll format on one hand and the dynamic expansion and contraction of cinematic time on the other. I aim to merge these elements in an atmospheric and endless landscape.
email: dana_rich@hotmail.com
